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A decentralized #Bitcoin is a Bitcoin where miners decide what goes in blocks, not pools. OCEAN's ultimate goal is to make this a reality, and today we take one step closer to our vision of decentralized block template construction. Available immediately, OCEAN is offering ๐—บ๐˜‚๐—น๐˜๐—ถ๐—ฝ๐—น๐—ฒ ๐—ฏ๐—น๐—ผ๐—ฐ๐—ธ ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—บ๐—ฝ๐—น๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ฒ ๐—ฝ๐—ผ๐—น๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐˜€, giving miners control over what blocks they are mining. The three options are: 1) OCEAN Recommended (most real financial transactions and least spam) 2) Bitcoin Core with the โ€œOrdisrespectorโ€ spam filter 3) Unmodified Bitcoin Core (same as other pools with fewest financial transactions and most spam) OCEAN will continue its 0% promotional pool fee for options 1 & 2 while there will be a competitive pool fee of 2% for option 3. Our fees are structured to incentivize miners to make choices that benefit the Bitcoin network in the long term. Suggestions for more templates? Let us know at mining@ocean.xyz.

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โ†ฉ replying to npub1hklp...3u2k
"Anti OFAC" literally none of their templates are OFAC compliant so all of them meet this criteria. "LN channel opens/closes" These will also be included in every available template. " Coinjoins/mixer TXs" There is no standard for these TXs so protocols like whirlpool that override the datacarrier to announce to the p2p layer that they are doing coinjoins may unfortunately be filtered out however should be possible through option 3 which is unmodified.
Thatโ€™s great to hear and sincerely hope they wonโ€™t be stopped by government. The only thing I canโ€™t help thinking about is if they launched a few weeks late but in this state: โ€œokay miners will choose if they want to include inscriptions or notโ€ there would be no drama and disappointment but I guess they wanted to live through this discussion to lay down their arguments. This might served to explain ordinals and BRC20 as a spam due to a bug. Which is a legit argument I believe. Lastly maybe the Public Relations guy should be the Bitcoin Mechanic instead of Luke. Even though Luke may have the purest of intentions I think its safe to say he has not the best communication skills.